Rachel Adelman is assistant professor of Hebrew Bible in the rabbinical program at Hebrew College in Newton, Mass. She holds a PhD in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her first book,The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha (Brill 2009), is based on her doctoral work. She just completed her second major book project: The Female Ruse — Women’s Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible (forthcoming, Sheffield-Phoenix Press), which she began as a research associate in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School in 2011. When not writing books, articles, or divrei Torah, it is poetry that flows from her pen.